Foucault News

News and resources on French thinker Michel Foucault (1926-1984)

Springer, S. Neoliberalism as discourse: Between Foucauldian political economy and Marxian poststructuralism, Critical Discourse Studies, Volume 9, Issue 2, May 2012, Pages 133-147 https://doi.org/10.1080/17405904.2012.656375 Abstract Contemporary theorizations of neoliberalism are framed by a false dichotomy between, on the one hand, studies influenced by Foucault in emphasizing neoliberalism as a form of governmentality, and on the …

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Rogers, D. Research, practice, and the space between: Care of the self within neoliberalized institutions, Cultural Studies – Critical Methodologies, Volume 12, Issue 3, June 2012, Pages 242-254 https://doi.org/10.1177/153270861244025 Abstract This article challenges the neoliberal discourse of “instrumental rationality” that is encroaching on theories of qualitative research, critical reflection, and subjectivity. I return to Foucault’s …

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Shaw, J. The Birth of the Clinic and the Advent of Reproduction: Pregnancy, Pathology and the Medical Gaze in Modernity, Body and Society, Volume 18, Issue 2, June 2012, Pages 110-138 https://doi.org/10.1177/1357034X10394 Abstract In conjunction with the growing feminist literature on pregnancy and visualization, this paper uses Foucault’s The Birth of the Clinic to demonstrate …

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Baldacchino, G. Governmentality is all the rage: The strategy games of small jurisdictions, Round Table, Volume 101, Issue 3, June 2012, Pages 235-251 https://doi.org/10.1080/00358533.2012.690964 Abstract This paper discusses the contemporary sovereignty experience of small states and territories in the context of unfolding ‘strategy games’. This paper charts and illustrates some of the most salient issues …

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Natanel, K. Resistance at the limits: Feminist activism and conscientious objection in Israel, Feminist Review, Volume 101, Issue 1, July 2012, Pages 78-96 https://www.jstor.org/stable/41495234 Abstract This article investigates the relationship between feminism and conscientious objection in Israel, evaluating the efficacy of feminist resistance in the organised refusal movement. While recent feminist scholarship on peace, anti-occupation …

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CALL FOR PAPERS The thirteenth annual meeting of the Foucault Circle at McGill University Montreal, Canada April 18-20, 2013 Papers on any aspect of Foucault’s work, as well as studies, critiques, and applications of Foucauldian thinking, are welcome. This year’s conference also includes two special sessions: A discussion of Foucault’s text I, Pierre Rivière; A …

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Michel Foucault, Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling. The Function of Avowal in Justice Edited by Fabienne Brion and Bernard E. Harcourt. Translated by Stephen W. Sawyer, University of Chicago Press 296 pages, © 2013 Publisher’s page Three years before his death, Michel Foucault delivered a series of lectures at the Catholic University of Louvain that until recently remained …

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pdf flyer Michel Foucault, Mal faire, dire vrai. La fonction de l’aveu en justice Édition établie par Fabienne Brion et Bernard E. Harcourt, Presses universitaires de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve (2012) Co-éditeur : University of Chicago Press ISBN : 978-2-87558-040-5 382 pages L’ouvrage Aux mois d’avril et de mai 1981, Michel Foucault prononce un cours qu’il intitule …

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McKinlay, A.A , Wilson, J.B ‘All they lose is the scream’: Foucault, Ford and mass production, Management and Organizational History, Volume 7, Issue 1, February 2012, Pages 45-60 https://doi.org/10.1177/1744935911427219 Abstract Henry Ford insisted that his development of mass production owed nothing to Taylorism. But Ford and Taylor can only be understood as part of a …

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Little, J. Transformational Tourism, Nature and Wellbeing: New Perspectives on Fitness and the Body, Sociologia Ruralis, Volume 52, Issue 3, July 2012, Pages 257-271 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9523.2012.00566.x Abstract Historical studies of rural recreation and wellbeing have drawn attention to the role of nature and the countryside in the development of ideas surrounding notions of fitness as a …

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